Editing 1907 World Series

{{Short description|1907 Major League Baseball championship series}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2013}}
{{Infobox World Series Expanded
  | image = 1907WorldSeries.png
| image_size = 300
  | country = World
  | year = 1907
  | champion = [[1907 Chicago Cubs season|Chicago Cubs]] (4)
  | champion_manager = [[Frank Chance]] (player/manager)
  | champion_games = 107–45, {{winpct|107|45}}, GA: 17
  | runnerup = [[1907 Detroit Tigers season|Detroit Tigers]] (0)
  | runnerup_manager = [[Hughie Jennings]]
  | runnerup_games = 92–58, {{winpct|92|58}}, GA: {{frac|1|1|2}}
  | date = October 8–12
  | venue = [[West Side Park|West Side Grounds]] (Chicago)<br />[[Bennett Park (Detroit)|Bennett Park]] (Detroit)
  | MVP = <!-- none -->
  | television = <!-- none -->
  | announcers = <!-- none -->
  | radio_network = <!-- none -->
  | radio_announcers = <!-- none -->
  | umpires =  [[Hank O'Day]] (NL)<br>[[Jack Sheridan (umpire)|Jack Sheridan]] (AL)
  | HOFers ='''Umpire:''' <br>[[Hank O'Day]] <br> '''Cubs:''' <br>[[Mordecai Brown]]<br>[[Frank Chance]]<br>[[Johnny Evers]]<br>[[Joe Tinker]] <br> '''Tigers:''' <br>[[Sam Crawford]]<br>[[Ty Cobb]]<br>[[Hughie Jennings]] (manager)
  | ALCS = <!-- none -->
  | NLCS = <!-- none -->
  | image2 = <!-- none -->
}}

The '''1907 [[World Series]]''' was the championship series in [[Major League Baseball]] for the [[1907 in baseball|1907 season]]. The fourth edition of the World Series, it featured the defending [[National League (baseball)|National League]] champion [[Chicago Cubs]] and the [[American League]] champion [[Detroit Tigers]]. The Cubs won the Series four games to none (with one tie) for their first championship.

The series had been scheduled for two games in Chicago, three games in Detroit, and one game in Chicago (games beyond the first four, only if necessary).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88126903/facts-about-worlds-championship-series/ |title=Facts About World's Championship Series |newspaper=[[The Times of Northwest Indiana|The Lake County Times]] |location=[[Munster, Indiana]] |page=4 |date=October 7, 1907 |access-date=October 31, 2021 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> Had a seventh game been necessary, its location was to be decided by the league office. After the first game ended in a tie, the series did not move to Detroit until Game 4.

The Cubs came back strong from their shocking loss in the [[1906 World Series]]. The Tigers' young star [[Ty Cobb]] came into the Series with the first of his many league batting championships. With pitching dominance over the Tigers and Cobb, the Cubs allowed only three runs in the four games they won, while stealing 18 bases off the rattled Tigers.

Each game was umpired by the two-man crew of [[Hank O'Day]] and [[Jack Sheridan (umpire)|Jack Sheridan]].

== Summary ==
{{MLB Playoff Summary
| summary = NL [[Chicago Cubs]] (4) vs. AL [[Detroit Tigers]] (0)
| winner =
| score =
| score1 = Detroit Tigers – 3, Chicago Cubs – 3 <small>(12)</small>
| date1 = October 8
| loc1 = [[West Side Park|West Side Grounds]]
| time1 = 2:40
| att1 = 24,377
| ref1 = <ref name="Game1">{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1907/B10080CHN1907.htm|title=1907 World Series Game 1 – Detroit Tigers vs. Chicago Cubs|access-date=September 13, 2009|publisher=Retrosheet}}</ref>
| score2 = Detroit Tigers – 1, '''Chicago Cubs''' – 3
| date2 = October 9
| loc2 = West Side Grounds
| time2 = 2:13
| att2 = 21,901
| ref2 = <ref name="Game2">{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1907/B10090CHN1907.htm|title=1907 World Series Game 2 – Detroit Tigers vs. Chicago Cubs|access-date=September 13, 2009|publisher=Retrosheet}}</ref>
| score3 = Detroit Tigers – 1, '''Chicago Cubs''' – 5
| date3 = October 10
| loc3 = West Side Grounds
| time3 = 1:35
| att3 = 13,114
| ref3 = <ref name="Game3">{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1907/B10100CHN1907.htm|title=1907 World Series Game 3 – Detroit Tigers vs. Chicago Cubs|access-date=September 13, 2009|publisher=Retrosheet}}</ref>
| score4 = '''Chicago Cubs''' – 6, Detroit Tigers – 1
| date4 = October 11
| loc4 = [[Bennett Park (Detroit)|Bennett Park]]
| time4 = 1:45
| att4 = 11,306
| ref4 = <ref name="Game4">{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1907/B10110DET1907.htm|title=1907 World Series Game 4 – Chicago Cubs vs. Detroit Tigers|access-date=September 13, 2009|publisher=Retrosheet}}</ref>
| score5 = '''Chicago Cubs''' – 2, Detroit Tigers – 0
| date5 = October 12
| loc5 = Bennett Park
| time5 = 1:42
| att5 = 7,370
| ref5 = <ref name="Game5">{{cite web|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1907/B10120DET1907.htm|title=1907 World Series Game 5 – Chicago Cubs vs. Detroit Tigers|access-date=September 13, 2009|publisher=Retrosheet}}</ref>
}}

== Matchups ==

=== Game 1 ===
[[File:Bennett Park 1907 WS.jpg|thumb|right|West Side Grounds during Game 1 on October 8]]
{{Linescore
|Date=Tuesday, October 8, 1907
|Location=[[West Side Park|West Side Grounds]] in [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]]
|Road=Detroit|RoadAbr=DET
|R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=3|R9=0|R10=0|R11=0|R12=0|RR=3|RH=9|RE=3
|Home=Chicago|HomeAbr=CHC
|H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=1|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=2|H10=0|H11=0|H12=0|HR=3|HH=10|HE=5
|RSP=|HSP=
|WP=|LP=|SV=
|RoadHR=|HomeHR=
|BoxURL=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1907/B10080CHN1907.htm
}}
The Tigers scored three runs, largely due to three Cub [[error (baseball)|error]]s, in the eighth inning and held a 3–1 lead going into the bottom of the ninth inning. The Cubs [[bases loaded|loaded the bases]] on a single, walk and infield error with one out.  Detroit conceded a run on a ground ball for the second out, and Cub player-manager [[Frank Chance]] then [[pinch hitter|pinch hit]] [[Del Howard]] for [[Joe Tinker]].  [[Wild Bill Donovan (baseball)|Wild Bill Donovan]] (25–4 in the regular season) struck him out, but the [[uncaught third strike|ball got away]] from catcher [[Boss Schmidt]], allowing [[Harry Steinfeldt]] to score the tying run.  Donovan got the next hitter, but the damage had been done.  The teams then played three scoreless [[extra innings]] before the game was called on account of darkness and declared a tie, a World Series first.

Donovan struck out 12 Cubs in the game. Although that matched [[Ed Walsh]]'s total in Game 3 against the Cubs in 1906, Walsh had done so in nine innings while Donovan only struck out 10 batters in the first nine innings of the game.

This was the closest the Tigers came to winning a game in this, their first Series.  The Cubs committed five errors and struck out 12 times in the game, but nine [[stolen base]] attempts (seven successful) and five [[Bunt (baseball)|bunt]]s (two for hits) set an aggressive offensive tone pressuring the Tigers for the rest of the series.

=== Game 2 ===
[[File:Johnny Cling Baseball.jpg|thumb|right|upright=.8|Cubs catcher [[Johnny Kling]]]]

{{Linescore
|Date=Wednesday, October 9, 1907
|Location=West Side Grounds in Chicago, Illinois
|Road=Detroit|RoadAbr=DET
|R1=0|R2=1|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=1|RH=10|RE=1
|Home='''Chicago'''|HomeAbr=CHC
|H1=0|H2=1|H3=0|H4=2|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=X|HR=3|HH=8|HE=1
|RSP=|HSP=
|WP=[[Jack Pfiester]] (1–0)|LP=[[George Mullin (baseball)|George Mullin]] (0–1)|SV=
|RoadHR=|HomeHR=
|BoxURL=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1907/B10090CHN1907.htm
}}
[[George Mullin (baseball)|George Mullin]], who both won and lost 20 games for Detroit in the regular season, and who had walked over 100 batters in each of his last five seasons, issued a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the second, matching the Tiger run in the top of the inning and tying the score at 1–1.  Chicago scored two more in the fourth on a single, sacrifice bunt, [[run batted in|RBI]] single, stolen base and double to take a 3–1 lead.  [[Jack Pfiester]], while allowing ten hits, benefited from two double plays and three caught-stealings by battery-mate [[Johnny Kling]] and was the winning pitcher for the Cubs.  [[Joe Tinker]] scored a run and drove in another in Game 2 after being pinch-hit for in the ninth inning of Game 1.

[[Hughie Jennings]] was the recipient of the first [[ejection (baseball)|ejection]] issued in World Series history when he argued a caught stealing call by [[Hank O'Day]] against [[Germany Schaefer]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Chicago Cubs 3, Detroit Tigers 1 |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1907/B10090CHN1907.htm |website=Retrosheet |access-date=30 August 2019}}</ref>

=== Game 3 ===
[[File:John J. Evers, Chicago Cubs, baseball card portrait LOC 3970980335.jpg|thumb|right|upright=.8|Cubs second baseman [[Johnny Evers]]]]

{{Linescore
|Date=Thursday, October 10, 1907
|Location=West Side Grounds in Chicago, Illinois
|Road=Detroit|RoadAbr=DET
|R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=1|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=1|RH=6|RE=1
|Home='''Chicago'''|HomeAbr=CHC
|H1=0|H2=1|H3=0|H4=3|H5=1|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=X|HR=5|HH=10|HE=1
|RSP=|HSP=
|WP=[[Ed Reulbach]] (1–0)|LP=[[Ed Siever]] (0–1)|SV=
|RoadHR=|HomeHR=
|BoxURL=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1907/B10100CHN1907.htm
}}
Cub pitcher [[Ed Reulbach]] scattered six hits as Chicago jumped on Tiger starter [[Ed Siever]] for four runs on seven hits in only four innings en route to their second win. [[Johnny Evers]] had three hits, including two doubles, as the Cubs took a 2–0 lead in the Series.

=== Game 4 ===
[[File:1906 Ty Cobb.jpg|thumb|right|upright=.8|Tigers outfielder [[Ty Cobb]]]]

{{Linescore
|Date=Friday, October 11, 1907
|Location=[[Bennett Park (Detroit)|Bennett Park]] in [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]]
|Road='''Chicago'''|RoadAbr=CHC
|R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=2|R6=0|R7=3|R8=0|R9=1|RR=6|RH=7|RE=2
|Home=Detroit|HomeAbr=DET
|H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=1|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=0|HR=1|HH=5|HE=2
|RSP=|HSP=
|WP=[[Orval Overall]] (1–0)|LP=[[Wild Bill Donovan (baseball)|Wild Bill Donovan]] (0–1)|SV=
|RoadHR=|HomeHR=
|BoxURL=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1907/B10110DET1907.htm
}}
In their first World Series home game, the Tigers took a 1–0 lead on a triple by their 20-year-old batting champion [[Ty Cobb]] and an RBI single by [[Claude Rossman]] in the bottom of the fourth, shortly before a rain delay in the top of the fifth. Soon after play resumed in the same inning, two Cubs reached base on an error and a walk. After [[Joe Tinker]] sacrificed, pitcher [[Orval Overall]] drove both runners home on a single to right. The Cubs scored three more in the seventh without the ball leaving the infield, on four bunts (two for hits) and two ground balls. Regular-season 23-game winner Overall was masterful after the rain delay, allowing only one hit in Detroit's final five innings, giving his Cubs a commanding 3–0 lead in the Series.

=== Game 5 ===
[[File:Baseball World Championship, 1907 (LOC 416092656).jpg|thumb|right|Bennett Park during Game 5 on October 12]]
{{Linescore
|Date=Saturday, October 12, 1907
|Location=Bennett Park in Detroit, Michigan
|Road='''Chicago'''|RoadAbr=CHC
|R1=1|R2=1|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=2|RH=7|RE=1
|Home=Detroit|HomeAbr=DET
|H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=0|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=0|HR=0|HH=7|HE=2
|RSP=|HSP=
|WP=[[Mordecai Brown]] (1–0)|LP=[[George Mullin (baseball)|George Mullin]] (0–2)|SV=
|RoadHR=|HomeHR=
|BoxURL=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1907/B10120DET1907.htm
}}
Chicago wrapped up the series with a 2–0 victory on "Three-fingered" [[Mordecai Brown]]'s seven-hit shutout. The Cubs scored a run in the top of the first on a walk, stolen base and RBI single by [[Harry Steinfeldt]] and scored again in the second on an error, a single, a double-steal and a groundout to drive in the last run of the Series. Detroit had runners on second and third with one out in the last of the fourth, but left them there and never seriously threatened after that.

This Series was the closest to a four-game sweep until the first true Series sweep in {{wsy|1914}}, when [[George Stallings]]' "miracle" [[1914 Boston Braves season|Boston Braves]] surged from last place in mid-July to win the NL pennant and upset [[Connie Mack]]'s [[1914 Philadelphia Athletics season|Philadelphia Athletics]] in the Series.

[[Frank Chance]] remains, at 30, the youngest manager to win a World Series title, breaking the mark set by [[John McGraw]] who won the [[1905 World Series]] with the [[New York Giants]] at the age of 32. Since then only one other manager has won a World Series under the age of 40, [[Tom Kelly (baseball)|Tom Kelly]] of the [[Minnesota Twins]] won the [[1987 World Series]] at the age of 37.

== Composite line score ==
1907 World Series '''(4–0–1): [[Chicago Cubs]] (N.L.)''' over [[Detroit Tigers]] (A.L.)
{{Linescore
|Road='''[[Chicago Cubs]]'''
|R1=1|R2=3|R3=0|R4=6|R5=3|R6=0|R7=3|R8=0|R9=3|R10=0|R11=0|R12=0|RR=19|RH=42|RE=10
|Home='''[[Detroit Tigers]]'''
|H1=0|H2=1|H3=0|H4=1|H5=0|H6=1|H7=0|H8=3|H9=0|H10=0|H11=0|H12=0|HR=6|HH=37|HE=9
|TotalAttendance=78,068 |AveAttendance=15,614
|WinPlayerShare=$2,143 |LosePlayerShare=$1,946<ref name="wsshares">{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/wsshares.shtml|title=World Series Gate Receipts and Player Shares|access-date=June 14, 2009|publisher=Baseball Almanac}}</ref>
}}

== Sources ==
{{WSRefs|year=1907|cohenpp=18–22|reichlerp=2115}}

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
{{WSExtLinks|year=1907}}

{{WorldSeries}}
{{1907 Chicago Cubs}}
{{Chicago Cubs}}
{{Detroit Tigers}}

[[Category:1907 Major League Baseball season|World Series]]
[[Category:Chicago Cubs postseason]]
[[Category:Detroit Tigers postseason]]
[[Category:World Series]]
[[Category:1907 in sports in Illinois|World Series]]
[[Category:1907 in sports in Michigan|World Series]]
[[Category:1900s in Chicago]]
[[Category:1907 in Detroit|World Series]]
[[Category:October 1907 sports events in the United States|World Series]]
[[Category:Baseball competitions in Chicago]]
[[Category:Baseball competitions in Detroit]]